Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Rathbun, Mary Jane 1860-1943
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building Great Hall
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- photo can be dated more exactly by calendar in left corner.
- Summary
- Curators of Fishes and Marine Invertebrates (Crustaceans) and other departments' offices for cataloging and arranging collection specimens located on the former exhibit galleries (north balcony) of the Great Hall in the Smithsonian Institution Building. The balcony exhibit space was replaced by offices beginning in 1882. Specimen jars are on tables and stands. Other scientific apparatus can be seen on the table in the foreground. A woman with her back to the camera is seated at another table and a man appears to be looking into a microscope at another table. The balconies were demolished in 1914 to make way for the Library and Graphic Arts displays.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 31, Folder: 43 and Record Unit 95, Box 31A, Folder: 30
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1903
- Standard number
- 16983 or 16853 or 18938 or AI-18938
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Interior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Interior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Balconies
- Curators
- Galleries
- Offices
- Interiors
- Microscopes
- Museum curators
- Research--Equipment and supplies
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Women
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9246
